Hoérée, Arthur (Charles Ernest)
Hoérée, Arthur (Charles Ernest)
Hoérée, Arthur (Charles Ernest), Belgian-French music critic, musicologist, and composer; b. St. Gilles, near Brussels, April 16, 1897; d. Paris, June 3, 1986. He received training in organ and theory at the Brussels Cons. (1908–12) and the Institut Musical in Anderlecht (1914–16). He then pursued his education at the École Polytechnique in Brussels (1916–19), and concurrently studied with Henner (piano), De Bondt (organ), Moulaert (harmony and counterpoint), and Closson (music history). He subsequently completed his training in Paris with Gigout (organ), d’Indy (conducting), and Vidal (fugue and composition). He settled in Paris as a music critic; in 1950 he became a prof. at the École Normale Supérieure de Musique, in 1958 a prof. at the Centre de Formation Professionelle of the French Radio and Television, and in 1972 a prof. of musicology at the Sorbonne. He publ. the monograph Albert Roussel (Paris, 1938), the major biography Roussel (Paris, 1969), and La Musique française au XXe siècle (Paris, 1974). Among his works were ballets, various film and radio scores, Pastorale et danse for String Quartet (1923), Septet (1923), piano music, and Crève-Coeur, le Magicien for Soloists, Chorus, and Orch. (1961).
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